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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: L&J: JPFO makes progress against Mass. gun control (fwd)
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>EDUCATION BEATS LOBBYING
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> Success stories are worth studying and emulating. Here's a good
>one: By educating a Massachusetts lawmaker that one real consequence of
>"gun control" can be genocide, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms
>Ownership derailed -- at the eleventh hour and after other Pro-Gun groups
>had failed -- an onerous state ban on military-style firearms.
>
> Last July, JPFO Massachusetts field rep Bruce Chesley used the
>effective educational approach to convert staff members of a Legislature
>Conference Committee that had to reconcile versions of a law banning many
>military-style firearms, by showing staff members how the proposed law
>borrowed concepts from the Nazi Weapons Law of 18 March 1938, and pointing
>out that "gun-control" laws had made subsequent genocide possible. The
>Worcester Telegram and Gazette, of Worcester, qauoted Rep. William J.
>Glodis, "It reminds me of Germany in the 1930s ... when Hitler did not
>allow the Jews to have guns. If we outlaw these guns, we could be setting
>up future generations for something similar." Glodis, who had previously
>voted for the gun ban, wrote to Chesley, "I want you to know that the
>conversation you had with my chief of staff, Vicki Saulnier, struck a
>chord in me. At first, I was astonished such an organization existed ...
>however when Vicki related your comments and historical perspective to it,
>it jogged my memory of those events of many years ago."
>
> Obviously, the educational approach -- presenting hard facts --
>can be more effective than confrontational "lobbying" activities such as
>empty threats and working for the salami-slice compromises that have
>gutted our Second Amendment rights in the past few decades. Educational
>activities are the best approach to convert, i.e. win as an ally, rather
>than "fight" the opposition. Under Democratic forms of government, one
>must often compromise with opponents -- but to educate and convert
>opponents is to win hands down.
>
> For information on how to do this, contact Jews for the Preservation of
>Firearms Ownership, 2872 S. Wentworth Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53207; phone 414-
>769-0760; fax: 414-483-8435; E-mail: 79500.3727@compuserve.com. Check out
>their web page:
>
> http://www.mcs.net/~lpylepm/jpfo.html
>
>JPFO has a wealth of hard facts for hands-on educational activities. Don't
>"fight" gun control -- defeat it. JPFO can show you how.
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